Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca will aim to wipe the smile off “funny guy” Graham Potter’s face when he faces his former West Brom chauffeur at Stamford Bridge on Monday.
Potter takes his West Ham side to play the club that sacked him almost two years ago and will come up against ex-Albion teammate Maresca, whom he used to taxi to training when the pair were together at the Hawthorns in the late 90s.
“In this moment we are better than two months ago and the reason is because the players all need to live these kind of moments, this kind of difficulty, to be better in the future,” said Maresca.
“A good guy, a funny guy,” said Maresca of the former defender, who was five years his senior at West Brom.
More than 25 years later, Maresca has followed in Potter’s footsteps in the Chelsea dugout though with rather more success, helping mould the team into top-four contenders after a torrid two years.
